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Dangerous games : the uses and abuses of history / Margaret MacMillan.

MacMillan, Margaret, 1943-
2009
D16.8 .M251 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
Dangerous games : the uses and abuses of history / Margaret MacMillan.
Author
MacMillan, Margaret, 1943-
Uniform Title
Uses and abuses of history
Edition
First U.S. edition.
ISBN
9780679643586
0679643583
Published
New York : Modern Library, 2009.
Copyright
©2008
Language
English
Description
xi, 188 pages ; 22 cm.
Call Number
D16.8 .M251 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
901
Summary
Explores the ways in which history has been used to influence people and government, focusing on how reportage of past events has been manipulated to justify religious movements and political campaigns.
Note
Originally published : The uses and abuses of history. Toronto : Viking Canada, 2008.
Based on the Joanne Goodman lecture series of the University of Western Ontario.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-175) and index.
Series
Modern Library chronicles.
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